Tag: wechat

Lessons from parallel digital worlds

By Adam Tinworth

The digital world is not a homogenous whole, but a series of parallel states, twisting ideas into new forms as they pass between them. And Instagram is becoming a very western version of a Chinese idea…
NEXT16: Asia is more than WeChat, says William Bao Bean

By Adam Tinworth

We're underestimating the huge business opportunity in Asia - but it's a different ecosystem, and you need to behave differently
NEXT16: Stephanie Rieger on how China is digitally leapfrogging the West

By Adam Tinworth

If you want to see our digital future, look to China and Africa. There, they are rapidly prototyping the future of commerce.
Playing the Platform Game

By Martin Recke

These days, everybody and their uncle wants to be a platform. The Four Horsemen of Tech — Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, or in short: GAFA — might still be dominant, but others are rising.
Facebook M aims to be the winner in the digital assistant wars

By Adam Tinworth

Beyond the battle to be the leading messaging platform lies a more subtle battle: to become your personal digital assistant